Yankees Suck!
May. 1st, 2006 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llcoolvadAhhh. Baseball is already awesome and it's only May!
Keep in mind I don't work Mondays. So I logged onto my work email around 7pm and almost wept. Almost every day during the various sports seasons my company gives away a pair of tickets to games (they have season tix for entertaining clients). The really good games are never usually available, though. But there they were. Two tickets to tonight's Red Sox-Yankee matchup, sitting there for the taking. Shit! The email usually gets sent at around 10am, so there's not a possibility that the tickets would still be there past 10:01am; but it makes me grumpy that I missed the opportunity.
And what a game it was! Wakefield pitching, Mirabelli returning to the Red Sox literally five minutes before the game, a 3-run shot from David Ortiz, Papelbon pitching the awesome final inning, and let's not forget endless Damon/Demon* opportunities. Does baseball get any better than this? Red Sox win, 7-3.
Ahhh. I love Red Sox vs. Yankees. Fun to hate! Fun to watch! I wore my hat all night.
* If you are not a baseball fan, Johnny Damon left the Red Sox this year to join the Yankees (for a lot of money). Red Sox fans, while grateful for all that Johnny did for the team for the last few years, felt betrayed that Johnny would go to the most-hated number-one rival Yankees. Most signs in the park tonight read "WWJDD? Betray!" and "Johnny DEMON" and "Any team but them!" He was classy enough (or smart enough) to tip his cap to the crowd at his first at-bat, but there was no mercy. Soundly booed. All night. Almost felt bad for him. Remembered that he's a hugely overpaid professional athlete. Stopped feeling bad for him.
Keep in mind I don't work Mondays. So I logged onto my work email around 7pm and almost wept. Almost every day during the various sports seasons my company gives away a pair of tickets to games (they have season tix for entertaining clients). The really good games are never usually available, though. But there they were. Two tickets to tonight's Red Sox-Yankee matchup, sitting there for the taking. Shit! The email usually gets sent at around 10am, so there's not a possibility that the tickets would still be there past 10:01am; but it makes me grumpy that I missed the opportunity.
And what a game it was! Wakefield pitching, Mirabelli returning to the Red Sox literally five minutes before the game, a 3-run shot from David Ortiz, Papelbon pitching the awesome final inning, and let's not forget endless Damon/Demon* opportunities. Does baseball get any better than this? Red Sox win, 7-3.
Ahhh. I love Red Sox vs. Yankees. Fun to hate! Fun to watch! I wore my hat all night.
* If you are not a baseball fan, Johnny Damon left the Red Sox this year to join the Yankees (for a lot of money). Red Sox fans, while grateful for all that Johnny did for the team for the last few years, felt betrayed that Johnny would go to the most-hated number-one rival Yankees. Most signs in the park tonight read "WWJDD? Betray!" and "Johnny DEMON" and "Any team but them!" He was classy enough (or smart enough) to tip his cap to the crowd at his first at-bat, but there was no mercy. Soundly booed. All night. Almost felt bad for him. Remembered that he's a hugely overpaid professional athlete. Stopped feeling bad for him.
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Date: 2006-05-02 04:27 am (UTC)I'd even have gone and booed Johnny Damon with you. Then waited outside the park to try and touch him. And Jeter. And A-Rod. When it comes to hotness, team loyalty means nothing.